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Wafer-scale quasi-layered tungstate-doped polypyrrole film with high volumetric capacitance

Show Author's Information Huabo Liu1,  Jiaxing Liang1,  John Watt2,  Richard D. Tilley3,  Rose Amal1,  Da-Wei Wang1( )
School of Chemical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NW 87545, USA
School of Chemistry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
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supercapacitor, polypyrrole, conductive polymer, electrochemical deposition, organic-inorganic hybrid, intercalation pseudocapacitance
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Liu H, Liang J, Watt J, et al. Wafer-scale quasi-layered tungstate-doped polypyrrole film with high volumetric capacitance. Nano Research, 2023, 16(4): 4895-4900. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-021-3783-3
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Layered materials are particularly attractive for supercapacitors because of their unique physical, electrical and chemical properties. Here, we demonstrate a facile and scalable electrochemical deposition method for wafer-scale synthesis of quasi-layered tungstate-doped polypyrrole films (named TALPy) with controllable thickness and size. The as-prepared TALPy film exhibits a high gravimetric density and excellent volumetric capacitance, exceeding many high-performing carbon- and polymer-based film electrodes. Based on combined results of ex-situ X-ray diffraction (XRD), Raman and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), it is determined that TALPy stores charge through an ion intercalation process accompanied by change in oxidation states of polypyrrole backbone, which is referred as intercalation pseudocapacitance. All these results suggest the great promise of electrochemical deposition as a scalable and controllable bottom-up approach for synthesizing quasi-layered conductive organic-inorganic hybrid films for electrochemical energy storage applications with high volumetric performance.


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Wafer-scale quasi-layered tungstate-doped polypyrrole film with high volumetric capacitance

Show Author's information Huabo Liu1, Jiaxing Liang1, John Watt2, Richard D. Tilley3, Rose Amal1, Da-Wei Wang1( )
School of Chemical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NW 87545, USA
School of Chemistry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia

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Layered materials are particularly attractive for supercapacitors because of their unique physical, electrical and chemical properties. Here, we demonstrate a facile and scalable electrochemical deposition method for wafer-scale synthesis of quasi-layered tungstate-doped polypyrrole films (named TALPy) with controllable thickness and size. The as-prepared TALPy film exhibits a high gravimetric density and excellent volumetric capacitance, exceeding many high-performing carbon- and polymer-based film electrodes. Based on combined results of ex-situ X-ray diffraction (XRD), Raman and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), it is determined that TALPy stores charge through an ion intercalation process accompanied by change in oxidation states of polypyrrole backbone, which is referred as intercalation pseudocapacitance. All these results suggest the great promise of electrochemical deposition as a scalable and controllable bottom-up approach for synthesizing quasi-layered conductive organic-inorganic hybrid films for electrochemical energy storage applications with high volumetric performance.

Keywords: supercapacitor, polypyrrole, conductive polymer, electrochemical deposition, organic-inorganic hybrid, intercalation pseudocapacitance

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Received: 03 May 2021
Revised: 28 July 2021
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Published: 12 August 2021
Issue date: April 2023

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This work was financially supported by the Australian Research Council Discovery Project (No. DP190101008), Future Fellowship (No. FT190100058), and the UNSW Scientia Program. H. B. L. acknowledges the University International Postgraduate Award (UIPA) PhD Scholarship from UNSW Sydney. The authors thank UNSW Mark Wainwright Analytical Centre for their facilities and the scientific and technical supports. This work was performed, in part, at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, an Office of Science User Facility operated for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science. Los Alamos National Laboratory, an affirmative action equal opportunity employer, is managed by Triad National Security, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy’s NNSA, under contract 89233218CNA000001.

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